Introducing PLOS Tech

PLOS is now in its 10th year of striving to make science research available to the public. As a staff-written and -moderated blog, PLOS Tech seeks to share not only research, but the whats, hows, and whys of facilitating scholarly communication. This is possible through the wisdom and insights of our software development, web production, and product development teams—among many others.

Goals for PLOS Tech

Build a community around sharing insights, techniques, and tools for scholarly communication, especially for science.

Create an opportunity for deeper technical feedback from the wider scholarly community.

What is technology?

Our coverage of technology is inclusive, meaning everything from evaluation of software tools to practical use of theoretical frameworks, information process construction to best practices and clever efficiencies, vital discussion of trends and patterns to critical analysis of buzzwords and memes.

We aim to provide insight accessible to both the technical and the not-so-technical among us, and we encourage any and all feedback via the comment sections and the rest of the web.

Coinciding with the launch of PLOS Tech, the bay area Open Knowledge community is invited for a casual meetup with a few lightning talks and targeted discussion in relevant topic areas. Join us at the SF Headquarters of PLOS, some snacks and beverages will be supplied. Will include updates on California state legislation on Open Access – AB 609 by PLOS, updates from OA at Berkeley by Angelica Tavella and Mitar Milutinovic http://oa.berkeley.edu, as well as a report back from Dario Amodei on the Vannevar series at Stanford.

About Matt Senate

Matt is passionate about Open Access and Access to Knowledge in general. As a supporter and participant of the Open Science and Free Culture movements, Matt recognizes the importance of an alliance between all disciplines (humanities and social sciences included) to fulfill a moral imperative to share knowledge and information as far and wide as possible. At PLOS, Matt is a web developer on the web production team.

About Patrick Polischuk

Patrick is a Product Manager at PLOS, where he focuses mostly on the publishing platform and post-publication aspects of journal publishing. He comes to PLOS by way of tech start-ups and science and technology policy. @ppolischuk

It was not clear from the outside that there was no further space for lightning talks. Anyway, have tried to bring these XML problems up a number of times, but nothing happened so far – looking forward to discuss things in detail at OAI8.